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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP |
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LOGOTHETE (Med. Lat. logothela, Gr. Xo'yoBErtls, from Xdyos, word, account, calculation, and riOEvai, to set, i.e. " one who accounts, calculates or ratiocinates ") , originally the title of a variety of administrative officials in the Byzantine
Empire
modern
logothete of the military chest. Gibbon de-fines the great
Logothete as " the supreme guardian of the laws
chancellor of the Latin monarchies." From the Eastern Empire
title was borrowed by the West, though it only became firmly established in Sicily, where the logotlzeta occupied the position of chancellor elsewhere, his office being equal if not superior to that of the magnus
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